My first lucid dream!

[Namwan]

After about a month of dream recalling and reading stuff on lucid dreaming, I had my first LD just a while ago (around 11 AM, after WBTB - before going back to bed I was really motivated and used auto-suggestions to not forget to do a RC) . It was a false awakening where I'm writing down my dreams like I usually do, but this time I do a reality check by pinching my nose. I can breathe!! I'm sooo happy. I do a RC a couple of times and it confirms that I'm dreaming, so I start flapping my arms so that I can fly. When that doesn't work, I start jumping on my bed so it might help in lifting off. That doesn't work either. Then I wake up. I'm really happy since this is my very first LD, but next time if my dreams aren't false awakenings then it would be harder for me to do a RC I'm wondering why I can't fly?

[Wavefunction]

Congratulations on your lucid dream! Amethyst Star wrote an excellent tutorial on different ways of achieving dream flight. You might want to try reading that.

[Namwan]

Thanks for the link to the tutorial Next time I'll start with floating. Someone I know told me that the reason why I couldn't fly is because I thought it was something extraordinary. My mind has to think that it is something normal in order to fly.

[Wavefunction]

Thanks for the link to the tutorial Next time I'll start with floating. Someone I know told me that the reason why I couldn't fly is because I thought it was something extraordinary. My mind has to think that it is something normal in order to fly. That's true - if you believe that you can't do something in a dream, it's much harder or impossible to do that thing. Dream control is all about believing in yourself and your ability to control the dream.